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AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
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Saturday Night "Club ONT" November 29, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
—Open Blogger
Alright, Christmas Tree... it is timber time. Junior, bring me the saw.
Welcome to Club ONT. A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. Apparently today was Small Business Saturday. Yet another event I was this many days old before knowing.
Quote of the Weekend
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers
Who is feeling festive and enjoying their Thanksgiving weekend? Family still around? Decorations? Leftovers!
A man was doing some last minute Christmas shopping when he spotted a beautiful parrot through the window of a pet shop.
The man walked inside to get a better look, and the owner of the shop approached the man.
"That's Chet," the owner said, "He's a very special parrot."
"What do you mean special?" the man asked.
The owner struck a match and held it under the parrot's left foot and Chet began to sing, "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..."
The man was totally amazed. The owner then held the lit match under the parrot's right foot and Chet began to sing, "Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la..."
The man had never seen any parrot like this one. He quickly paid the man for the parrot and rushed home to his wife.
Skeptical of her husband's purchase, the wife sat down and watched the man light a match, then hold it under the parrot's left foot. Chet began to bellow, "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way..."
The wife was speechless. The man then held the match under the parrots right foot and Chet began to bellow, "Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la..."
The wife, still skeptical asked, "What would happen if you held the match under both of his feet?"
The man thought for a minute, then held the lit match under both of the parrot's feet.
Chet began to squawk louder than ever, "CHETS NUTS ROASTING OVER AN OPEN FIRE!"
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Went into a toy store to do some early Christmas shopping and asked the assistant, "Where are the Schwarzenegger dolls?"
Ingredients
2 ounces dark rum
½ ounce lime juice
½ ounce pineapple juice
¼ ounce Demerara Syrup (syrup made with sugar in the raw)
¼ ounce cinnamon syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
Directions
In a cocktail shaker, add all ingredients with ice. Shake well and strain into a coupe glass.
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Club ONT Department of Philosophy
Anyone know what the correct amount of woomba is?
Asking the important questions.
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Club ONT Trains
Ken Burns has rightfully been taking some heat for his revisionist Civil War series. Let's take a look at something interesting from the era.
The plan to steal a Confederate train, hatched by a civilian spy named James J. Andrews, had a dual purpose. It was meant to destroy Western and Atlantic Railroad and cut off Confederate supplies to Chattanooga, making the city vulnerable to capture by Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel.
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James J. Andrews and his men targeted a train station in Kennesaw known as Big Shanty because it didn't have a telegraph station. If everything went according to plan, the Confederates would be unable to alert others to the train theft, thus giving Andrews and his men a healthy head start.
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No compatibility tests. Nor leadership. Certainly not intelligence test - we all know smart the Horde... well nevermind. The Club is going right to the jugular. Dictator and President tests. Which are you most aligned with?
This free online 45-question personality test will allow you to compare yourself with the personalities of 20 murderous dictators and terrorists, using a hybrid of the scientific "Big Five" measure of personality and the cognitive theories of C.G. Jung. Furthermore, this test will also match your personality scores with peer-reviewed university studies.
In his research, Professor Dr. John M. Berecz, Ph.D., studied the personalities of several U.S. presidents and concluded that each of them could be linked to a definite psychiatric pathology.
Which U.S. president do you resemble? For each of the following statements, indicate how well it applies to you below.
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Club ONT Science Update
Space trivia: Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977. It has been flying for over 48 years away from the sun at an average of over 38,026 miles per hour.
It is not yet one light-day away from earth. A light-day is the distance it takes for a beam of light to travel over 24 hours.
For comparison, the closest star is 4.24 light-years away. The closest star is Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri system.
If the relative celestial locations remained the same (which they won't), it would take Voyager 1 over 74,000 earth years to reach Proxima Centauri at its current pace. Having said that, Voyager 1 was never built for top speed. More speed is possible, so other spacecraft could get there much more quickly.
If you are at Club ONT's Proxima Centauri location and you are waiting for drink delivery from earth, please be patient. Old copies of Compute! Magazine are in the lobby for you to read while you wait.
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Club ONT Music
Let's begin the Christmas season with a very Club-worthy tune from The Waitresses!
Check out that funky bass-line!
Bringing back a Club favorite - you will face scorn if you are caught not Wanging Chung!
Anyone here named Sharona? If so, this one's for you!
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Constitutional purists, in the main, adhere to the judicial philosophy of ‘originalism.’ That is, they do not believe the Constitution and its Amendments are evolving or subject to change in meaning based on the mood of the times. They try to understand the contemporaneous intent of the words by those who wrote them.
In the field of criticism, a close cousin to originalism is textualism or new criticism. The proponents of new criticism, when looking at literature or poetry or film, tend not to want to be distracted by anything but words on the page or images and dialogue on the screen. So it matters little to the textualist if a movie might seem racist by today’s standards or if it is a faithful adaptation of the source material. The new critic eschews these considerations to concentrate only on what he can see on the screen and judges the film by what it is trying to accomplish.
I kept coming back to these models of interpretation when reading Barry Diller’s recently published memoir Who Knew.
Even though I have devoted a large part of my life to cinema, I have never much liked behind the scenes stories or biographies of stars and studio moguls. I knew the name Barry Diller but almost nothing about what he accomplished. And that is because I see many memoirs and tell-alls as distractions. The play is the thing for me.
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You can read the book to learn about Diller (in his own words) but, briefly, he was an aimless and troubled kid from Beverly Hills who grew up around Hollywood performers and executives. At 19, with no life direction, he called in a favor to get a job in the mail room at the William Morris talent agency. He worked his way up the ranks at William Morris but then leapt over to ABC where he impacted television in profound ways. Next it was on to Paramount where he resurrected that studio in the 1970s. After that, it was Fox, which he also revived. In his later years, he became a forerunner of internet commerce and content.
If you are a film and entertainment historian, you cannot ignore Diller’s legacy, though this begs the question: as one who leans towards textualism when watching movies, should I ignore him?
To give Diller the benefit of the doubt, I set aside the originalist lens to see what he had to say.
Right out of the gate, Diller disappoints. In the foreword, he declares he does not intend the book to be a teaching or business strategy guide (a la The Art of the Deal). The reason he states he wrote the memoir is, simply, because he thinks his life-story worth recounting. ‘Who Knew’ an angst-ridden kid with no education or prospects could succeed as he did.
The wayward-boy-makes-good story is interesting to a point, but what movies inspired him? What novels have moved him? Why did he want to become involved in storytelling--especially at such a grand scale?
Despite his disclaimers, I held out hope I could derive something inspirational from a man who helped shape studios and motion pictures for three decades.
And yet, after 320 pages, I was unsure what attracted him to fictional drama. He repeatedly affirms his love of problem solving, and in the film biz problems abound, but that tells me nothing about his process as a storyteller.
He also is not shy about sharing his distaste for MBA-style financial projections as an approach to crafting a successful film, and he is adamant in his disdain for the practice of packaging stars and material before ideas are hammered out.
I agree with those instincts, but Diller never digs deeper than that. Though he is responsible for some of the great movies in history, he has precious little to say about why they were special or what he understood their dramatic purpose to be.
Oftentimes, he will crow about a hit movie he produced but only to say it did well at the box office or won awards--not why it connected with audiences and what his hand was in setting the table for that connection to be made.
There are nuggets of wisdom in the book, but it is far too little, and as I read on, more and more, I was not only deprived of edification, but I also distrusted Diller.
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I do not read many memoirs (movie ones or otherwise) because they are, ipso facto, self-serving. Diller confirms this instinct by painting himself in the best possible light. He feigns humility frequently, but like the screenwriting seminars teach us: to write a great villain you must make the bad guy believe he is the hero of the story. I am not saying Diller is a villain, but having dedicated his life to one of the most cutthroat businesses, too often he styles himself as merely an amiable –though driven — fixer.
These moments of doubt I had for his authenticity occurred not just with his professional life but also in the many personal things he reveals. He spends much of the first third of the book discussing his homosexuality, how he had to hide it, be ashamed of it, how it caused him panic and self-loathing. One sympathizes with him, but then, in his thirties he meets the fashion mogul and bon vivant Diane von Furstenburg, and it is a love affair for the ages.
He is smitten with her but clueless about how to be a heterosexual romantic. On her 29th birthday he gets her 29 diamonds; yet, he presents them to her in a Band-Aid box. It is supposed to be an adorable tidbit about his inartful amorousness, but any sympathy I had for him in the early going – as a closeted and confused youth — falls by the wayside as he never seems to mention this again, instead opting for tales of opulent jet setting with Furstenburg.
These personal notes about Diller are probably not germane to my pursuit of a better understanding of movies, but they did confirm my belief that too often Hollywood memoirs and histories are more of the TMZ, gossip-style flavor and thus not very useful to the serious cinephile.
And as for Diller himself, in the end, I concluded he was not really dedicated to telling great stories. TV and movies just happened to be the milieu into which he stumbled. He clearly had a knack for getting things done, and, though he tries to disguise it, there was great appeal in the flamboyant lifestyle his success afforded him.
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For anyone who wants to be involved with or write about movies, basic cinema history is necessary to learn.
Of course it’s fun to know Kurt Russell was in the running to play Han Solo or to point out the cameos Hitchcock made in his movies, but, in the dark of the theater what good do these asides do for my relationship with and reaction to any given film?
Diller’s memoir and others like might fill in the blanks historically speaking, but they have no pedagogical or etiological value.
It will be a long time before I pick up another book like Who Knew. I would rather watch movies and absorb what I can in the moment.
I recognize it would be difficult for film reviewers and historians to write anything if they employed new criticism or textualism in its strictest sense.
But Constitutional originalism has taught us some of the most important lessons in American and world history. Applying some of its spirit to the study of film might not be that bad of an idea.
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on advent calendars.
Are you thinking "I'm not into advent calendars and I can barely count, but I am eager to learn more. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.
As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged.
Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.
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Tomorrow is the first Sunday in Advent. The time for preparation and anticipation of Christmas is upon us. If only there was a fun and clever way to track the countdown...
Where did Advent Calendars come from? Here's the explanation, thanks to a German Girl in America:
In literature, the earliest mention of a countdown Calendar comes in a 1851 Children's Book by Elise Averdieck. Thomas Mann also mentions the Advent Calendar in his novel Buddenbrooks. By 1902, the first "Christmas Clock" was sold in Hamburg. It counted the days, much like a clock counts the hours with a movable dial and hands.
It was German lithographer Gerhard Lang, however, who came to be known as the "inventor" of the modern Advent calendar in the years that followed. When he was a boy, Lang's mother would help him count down to Christmas by fixing 24 cookies to a makeshift calendar.
After World War I, Lang released his first Advent calendar with pieces of chocolate inside, paving the way for the modern versions.
In the U.S., Advent calendars saw a massive boost in popularity after World War II.
"President Dwight Eisenhower's grandkids had a picture in Newsweek magazine of them opening an advent calendar, because at that point, Advent calendars were still sort of a new thing in the United States, even though they had been produced in Germany for 50 years," Landau said.
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Has an advent calendar been part of your Christmas tradition?
Do you have a favorite in your house? Did you have one as a child?
Have you made a calendar of your own?
What fun treats have you put in an advent calendar? (Disclosure: interweb searching for "advent calendar" yields way too many expensive examples with high dollar goodies each day rather than simple and fun treats. I guess fools and their money are soon parted...)
Are there advent calendars out there you think would be particularly well suited for the Horde?
Any other favorite advent traditions?
Do you have three purple candles and one pink candle ready for your advent wreath? Do you use blue instead of purple?
Are you among the early birds bringing home a fresh Christmas tree before November ends? Are you already setting up an artificial tree?
1) Decide on a design (square, rectangular, or triangular)
2) Cut shipping tubes or dividers
3) Glue shipping tubes or dividers together
4) Fill each tube with a craft beer bottle or can
5) Decorate
6) Enjoy
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This looks like a fun little craft project. Click the photo for instructions:
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Cardboard tube (aka toilet paper roll) DIY calendar.
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From the Ore Mountains of Germany, known as Erzgebirge.
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For Doggo (and doggos):
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Fortum and Mason building in London:
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Mercedes-Benz in Munich:
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Get a part each day and assemble them into a finished product. From the Germans (naturally):
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Presume everyone already has this one:
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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an boating theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
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Notable comments from last week:
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Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute something from your personal hobbying. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
The horses of Iceland are the original Viking horses and one of the purest horse breeds in the world. Breed has been isolated on the rugged island in North-Atlantic since the settlement, or over 1000 years ago
Hi, KT, this is Caiwyn from the AoSHQ comments section.
I wanted to share the catio I built over the last month. My cats, Augie (short for Augusta) and Merlin both love watching the squirrels in the back yard. Merlin in particular wants to chase them outside, but his grey coat makes him nearly invisible at night and I don’t want to risk him being hurt. They are both indoor cats.
So to give them more of a taste of the outdoors I built them a catio! It’s 4-foot by 2-foot enclosure just outside the back window, made of 2x4 beams, 3/4-inch plywood shelves, and a large sheet of PetScreen. They access it through the window when it’s open, and it gives them multiple vantage points for watching birds and squirrels. So far they seem to like it!
Very impressive! A sure sign that your cats are loved! Thanks for showing us so many building details.
Meet The PetMorons
Hey, KT! This is my golden retriever Finn. He'll be a year old on 11/29, and has grown into a handsome boy. He's currently in full teenage hellhound phase, which we're hoping he'll grow out of soon!--Jordan61
Happy Birthday, Finn! We love you! You don't look like a hellhound.
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1. Treat time! Winnie (Left) is thinking that maybe this time she does not have to sit. Kroger (Center) flopped down quickly. I told Rose (Right) to sit and she climbed into bed with Kroger.
To give you an idea of my initial concern, Kroger does *not* share his space very well but for the sake of a Yaky Puff, he was willing to overlook Rose's transgression.
2. Kroger with his new bed and his bear.
3. Winnie (right) deigning to let Cole share a dog bed. With some help from great hoomans. Kroger will share with his bear!
NR Pax
Doggie siblings learning to be siblings!
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Our Pepper dog in 2006. Miss her something awful.
Eromero
Awww. A sweet dog, still remembered.
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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today. I am missing details on a couple of submissions.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
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Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
This is a miniature Phalaenopsis, pretty undemanding! Found it in a grocery store plant department last year, in bloom. It bloomed again this month, with more blooms than before. It hadn't been tagged with a species name but after an image search this time I'm pretty sure it's Phal. Sogo Vivien. I keep it in an east window along with other plants, and a grow light hanging above them all.
I got curious and looked up SOGO. Turns out they're "SOGO Orchids CO., Ltd. is a leading global company specializing in Phalaenopsis breeding and young plant production based in Taiwan." There are a LOT of SOGO orchids for sale on the web!
Lirio100
Bet there are several "non-gardening" members of The Horde who could garden on a windowsill. Thanks for the great information.
our hazelnut tree bore fruit! We've had it for a few years, and it has flowered, but never made any nuts. While walking the yard recently, we saw one little nut cluster on the ground under it!
Some things we learned last week might help increase his yield. The details about pollination were remarkable.
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Pecan tarts, one of my contributions today.
Easy to make if you have a mini-muffin tin and a tart shell press.
Here's the recipe I used but there are many out there, all about the same.
I would like to try them for Christmas with chopped, toasted hazelnuts.
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Gardens of The Horde
The Camellia bushes have suddenly started blooming in my neighborhood. I love the unexpected pop of bright color when all the other flowers are gone or are fading fast. I associate Camellias with southeastern states, but I'm wondering if they grow elsewhere.
The Pilot
How fun to have those flowers this time of year!
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At the bottom of this hill I found some Witch Hazel blooming down by the creek last weekend.
Witch hazel is a hardy shrub or small tree that produces eye-catching, fragrant yellow blooms in the wintery landscape. Native to North America, it grows best in mild climates, in full sun, and in moist, slightly acidic, well-draining soil. Witch hazel is also beloved for its tendency to attract pollinators and songbirds and for its deer-resistance.
Be sure to check out the hazelnut/filbert catkin photos from last week's thread (link at the end of this post) to see why witchhazel and hazelnuts may both have "hazel" in their names.
They kind of look like these slime molds (probably "insect egg slime mold) submitted by Aimee at Everything Backyard Chicken, too. At least in color.
Found in a backyard chicken run. It won't hurt you.
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If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:
ktinthegarden at g mail dot com
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Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! How many times did you hear, before Thanksgiving, "Are you ready for Thanksgiving"? Do you expect to hear in the upcoming weeks anything like, "Are you ready for Christmas"?
Who knows? Some things in life are predictable and other thngs are unpredictable.
It was just the two of us this year for Thanksgiving, and we tried to prepare for leftovers (especially after losing one of our refrigerators) by stretching the traditional Thanksgiving treats over several meals. But we still have leftovers. One faux pas so far: yesterday was "cook the turkey breast day", and I didn't realize that there was a gravy base packet inside the breast. I guess that makes up for the giblets and neck usually packaged with a whole turkey. But I had never seen one before. The gravy base packet got baked, too.
The plastic packet did not melt. I gamely tried to rescue the contents but some of the thickener had transformed into something resembling masses of amphibian eggs, and would not thin out. Oh, well. I added a can of chicken gravy and served it anyway.
I can't imagine anything like this occurring in, say, France.
Do people fry turkey breasts whole like they do whole turkeys? Frying one of these gravy packets could be a disaster. When I put the leftovers away, I added drippings from baking the turkey breast to the meat to keep it fresh-tasting, but the rescued gravy has been kept separate, perhaps for use with a future batch of aromatic dressing.
The roasted masterpiece that emerges proudly on Thursday afternoon will, by Friday morning, become a pale, slightly accusatory presence concealed in Tupperware or aluminum foil—what a food writer in The New York Times once called a “ghoulish reminder” of the day before—carved, dismembered, and waiting to be transformed into something, anything, edible.
By Friday, it will be turkey noodle soup. By Saturday, turkey enchiladas. By Sunday, turkey sandwiches. And by Monday, we will swear—once again—that we are done with turkey until next November.
But there’s a quiet wisdom buried in all that culinary improvisation. As the late Rabbi Robert Kahn of Houston’s Congregation Emanu El once said: Anyone can cook the turkey. The real creativity, the real art, lies in what we do with the leftovers.
Bible stories and intriguing thoughts at the link.
Whenever I think about leftovers—not food, but the leftovers of life—I find myself drawn back to Torah. As Jacob prepares to meet Esau after decades of estrangement, he divides his household, saying in effect: “If one group falls, perhaps a remnant will survive.” Jacob is planning for at least part of his tribe to become, well, leftovers. In the Book of Job, messengers come one after another with catastrophic news, each ending their terrible report with the chilling refrain: “I alone have escaped to tell you.” The last remaining witness. All that is left.
This year—as we look toward Thanksgiving—it feels impossible not to hear echoes of Job. Jewish anxiety has become a constant background hum, especially with the ever-increasing antisemitism coming from all sides. The simple act of gathering in joy feels both necessary and fragile. The story of Job is not ancient history. It is the emotional soundtrack beneath our holiday preparations.
So, before we even carve the turkey, we must ask: What do we do with what remains? What do we do with the fragments—the leftover hope, the leftover courage, the leftover faith—that we carry into this season?
Here is what I know: The Jewish people have become virtuosos of leftovers. . .
Earlier this year, someone started a viral trend of asking ChatGPT this question: If you were the devil, how would you destroy the next generation, without them even knowing it?
Chat’s responses were profound and unsettling: “I wouldn’t come with violence. I’d come with convenience.” “I’d keep them busy. Always distracted.”
“I’d watch their minds rot slowly, sweetly, silently. And the best part is, they’d never know it was me. They’d call it freedom.”
As a social psychologist who has been trying since 2015 to figure out what on earth was happening to Gen Z, I was stunned. Why? Because what the AI proposed doing is pretty much what technology seems to be doing to children today. It seemed to be saying: If the devil wanted to destroy a generation, he could just give them all smartphones.
The evidence keeps piling up.
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Ready for technological changes?
There are some malevolent characteristics of tech described just above. But what if it quits working altogether?
AoSHQ got off pretty light in the recent Cloudflare disruptions. But how would we communicate if something more serious or long-lasting happened?
What if the electrical grid went down?
What are our back-ups? Know anyone who does ham radio?
I have decided that one thing I can do right now is give some people manual can openers that really work for Christmas. And get some cash on hand. I'll be thinking about communications, too.
Got any readiness plans for the near future?
These are some readiness plans at the UN. Makes you wonder if they have read any recent news:
Climate change is deepening inequalities — and increasing the risk of gender-based violence for women and girls.
VDH discusses a recent event in which he participated, in Bakersfield, CA. He is heartened by the development of some conservative organizations there, in a difficult state, climate, etc. Segment starts at about 41 minutes, just after he discusses the travails of the editorial process for a real book.
On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and @jackfowler take aim at the six congressional Democrats who called on military members to defy “illegal” orders from the Commander-in-Chief.https://t.co/9GodSjgeSz
There has been some opposition to individual conservatives in Bakersfield in the recent past. If they can make progress there, maybe some other communities can do some similar things.
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Chetek)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects. Dull ones? Feeling lucky?
4) Have a great weekend!
The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world As it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right If I surrender to His Will; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with Him Forever and ever in the next. Amen.
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To be fair, he made the right call, making Nvidia the most valuable company in the world, and that is his job. However, he is pushing his staff to use more AI precisely because if it works he won't need them.
I don't believe it will work, but he has to claim to believe it, because that is also his job. So one way or the other, he is lying.
It has a 9" OLED display with a resolution of 2400x1504 at 165Hz, which is not drastically more than (for example) the Switch 2's 7.9" 1920x1080 120Hz screen.
But it also has an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the same CPU powering the recent raft of $2000 home AI computers. 16 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores, packed into a handheld.
The only drawback to smoothening the sharp edges of the M3 MacBook Air is that the polished area is prone to oxidation, but nothing like a simple wiping job will do the trick.
There's a fun but bittersweet meme called "What They Took From Us." The idea is that you show something nice that we used to have, which has now disappeared.
I first saw the meme about Pizza Hut's old distinctively-roofed buildings versus the Ikea Construction Company boxes they have now.
So they idea is that you offer an overwrought lament that you've lost a major part of your cultural patrimony, but then you just link some trivial mass-market nostalgia-bait.
So here's a What They Took From Us: Insanely hot girls on TV who are on TV just because they're insanely hot and people like looking at insanely hot girls.
Computers weren't so advanced in the 1970s, so to train tank drivers, they created a miniature battlefield and had the trainees "drive the tank" through the miniature field, viewing it through a small camera that moved across the diorama.
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, as he often does. The Friday afternoon post stated, "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States." It is unclear how significantly this could impact governmental programs and policies, but certainly it will shake up the federal government.
Next, Trump went so far as to say that Joe Biden was so totally incompetent mentally and physically that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the autopen scandal and would be lying if he said he did.
The president insisted, "The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
I suspect they will claim that any document with the claimed signature of the president is presumptively real and therefore lawful, and that any undoing of that presumption must be on a case-by-case basis and by clear and convincing proof.
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Before I haul out the holly and start setting up for Christmas today, I’ll take advantage of the opportunity to clear the spindle of a few items that didn’t warrant an entire post unto themselves.
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Principled Free Traders Hit Hardest
There is emerging bad news for all the America-last “free traders” who celebrated the loss of American jobs during the era of unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism. Specifically, President Trump’s effort to re-shore American manufacturing is reducing the trade deficit and creating new manufacturing jobs here at home.
This is just one of many stories about manufacturing jobs being reshored to the US:
This article documents how GE is moving production of washers and dryers from China to Kentucky, creating 800 jobs in Louisville alone, while directly investing $490 million into the US economy with the plant’s construction and tooling. In addition, GE has announced contracts worth more than $150 million to US businesses who will be suppliers to the Kentucky operations.
Donald Trump’s policy of repatriating jobs is having its desired impact. Wealth retained in this country, which then circulates through the American economy, propels Gross Domestic Product (GDP) upward. It’s already starting to happen.
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in August as businesses imported fewer goods against the backdrop of higher tariffs, a trend that if sustained could be a potential tailwind for economic growth in the third quarter.
The monthly trade deficit decreased by an impressive 24% in August, injecting about $20 billion into the US economy that otherwise would have been sent overseas.
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What if ICE had Door Dash do Its Work for Them?
Last Friday I wrote about the black market of illegal, foreign labor that constitutes much of the actual workforce delivering meals for companies such as Door Dash and Uber Eats.
A few days later, Turning Point’s Savannah Hernandez offered up a humorous idea to make ICE’s job easier. Rather than chasing down people who are in the country illegally, ICE can just order Door Dash or Uber Eats and have them show up at ICE’s front door.
All ICE has to do to get illegals out of NYC is order Uber eats and DoorDash all day.
Guaranteed 100% success rate that their delivery person will be an illegal using someone’s stolen social security number.
Basically ordering illegals straight to their door. The perfect plan.
Because I have always understood what a fraud the entire green energy scam is, I have never been at risk of getting suckered into any “renewable energy” investments. I also know that the “winners” in this sector have been those scamming the government for grant money, and those scamming credulous investors out of their savings. Celebrities have been especially good marks for those promoting the climate scam, because celebrities are not only wealthy, but they are often naïve and gullible.
Aspiration Partners, a Marina del Rey green investing firm, collapsed after executives pleaded guilty to using falsified documents to defraud celebrity investors. The company attracted backers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer before filing for bankruptcy in March.
Amidst its pure financial fraud, Aspiration was also peddling carbon credits, which people are finally starting to realize is a form of fraud too. While my moral compass would never allow me to participate in a scam against celebrities, I do feel a little schadenfreude when I read that these green crusaders got swindled by con men pushing the climate hoax.
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Is Chicago in a Doom Loop or a Death Spiral?
Goldman Sachs was left holding the bag after a sale of Chicago municipal bonds was largely rejected by investors.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. took down a portion of a $454 million debt deal from Chicago on Wednesday even after boosting yields on the sales-tax bonds that hold higher ratings than the city. The bank was left with roughly $75 million of unsold bonds issued through the city’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp., according to a Chicago spokesperson.
Goldman priced the bonds too cheaply for the risk inherent in issuing bonds on behalf of a failing city, and even when the yield was increased in an attempt to draw in more buyers, Goldman still couldn’t sell all the bonds. As a result, Goldman is stuck with about $75 million dollars in bonds to be repaid by the city of Chicago…if they’re ever actually repaid. Investors seem pretty skeptical, otherwise Goldman wouldn’t have had to eat those unmarketable bonds.
Chicago’s financial default seems inevitable, as it keeps raising taxes while running off its productive, tax-paying citizens. Investors know what time it is. Goldman just figured it out.
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It is indeed a five alarm financial dumpster ��.
The Market is getting ahead of the credit rating agencies.
Even though the City of Chicago is not at junk bond status (yet), the market is… https://t.co/zyzNJ9yoM3
Who Would Insure a Container Ship Carrying Lithium Batteries?
A container ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles spontaneously erupted in a massive fire that was so toxic and intense that nearby communities were ordered to shelter in place.
A fire broke out aboard the 8,212 teu ONE Henry Hudson while docked at Yusen Container Terminal in the Port of Los Angeles late Friday evening. The incident prompted a major emergency response involving nearly 200 firefighting personnel and sparked a shelter-in-place order for nearby communities.
Predictably, it turns out that the ship’s cargo included containers carrying lithium batteries.
The contents were described as general cargo, but [Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr Mark] Leahey did confirm that shipments of lithium batteries were included.
The ship has been hauled out to sea where it remains under close watch “to ensure there are no re-flashes.”
For now, this incident is being referred to as an “electrical fire.” I’ve done a little digging, and as best I can tell, this “electrical fire” is only the second incident ever at the Port of LA that required neighboring residents to shelter in place. The previous occurrence was in 2018, due to a chemical spill.
Fortunately, the crew was safely evacuated because the ship was in port, but these ship-borne fires involving EVs and lithium batteries are becoming dangerously common.
[h/t to Mr. CBD for sending me this story.]
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Don’t Mess with the Gulf of America
The 2025 hurricane season ends this weekend, and for the first time since 2015, there was not a single hurricane making landfall on the United States coast. Not only were there no hurricane strikes, but there were zero hurricanes at all in the Gulf of MexicoAmerica this season.
The Gulf of Mexico had a long history of catastrophic, category 5 hurricanes, but so far there has never been a hurricane in the Gulf of America. It should have been renamed a long time ago, since hurricanes are clearly afraid of entering the Gulf of America.
Ponder this, there has NEVER been a hurricane in the Gulf of America. Had we known hurricanes wouldn’t mess with our Gulf, we might’ve changed the name sooner.
My pal Scott McKay at The American Spectator has a new book out, titled “Blockbusters.” It’s the third in his Mike Holman series, in which the protagonist is involved in a conservative takeover of the entertainment industry. It’s a good read, and timely too, considering all the media upheavals going on, including the imminent sale of debt-laden Warner, as well as conservative-ish media conglomerate Sinclair making a bid for Scripps.
Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If there’s an upright bass in the band, it’s probably going to be good.”
At the Throckmorton household, we have a strictly-enforced house rule of “no Christmas before Thanksgiving.” Since the fridge is full of Thanksgiving leftovers, I suppose it’s safe to start gearing up for Christmas now.
Here’s Dailey and Vincent with the Bill Monroe classic, “Christmas Time’s a-Coming”
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that . . . “I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said:
It is now all too painfully obvious, at least to me, that Army Specialist Beckstrom died in the line of duty, in defense of our nation. Or at least what vestiges of it remain after decades of destruction, division and dissolution that have, as Abraham Lincoln once described it, rotted away at its vitals. To say that we are in a state of civil war in my view is incorrect, but we are for sure in a state of siege by an axis of evil representing ideologies and people that are simultaneously foreign and domestic, and who share a rabid fever dream of obtaining absolute power with zero compunction and now a desire to employ the most violent means at their disposal.
President Trump says he’ll ‘permanently pause migration’ from all ‘Third World Countries’
. . . He will additionally “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization,” he wrote in the long post.. . “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!” the post said. Trump’s comments came following a deadly ambush on two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday, which investigators say was carried out by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Lakanwal, 29, entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s withdrawal as part of the “Operation Allies Welcome” program.
Well, Amen to all of that. What the President did not say, and for obvious reasons cannot say is that one of the two major things that are non-compatible with Western Civilization is ISLAM. It is and has been for 1,500 years a tyrannical totalitarian death cult Hell bent of the conquest and subjugation of the entire human race by every means necessary. Islam is like a virus. First mass migration to non-muslim countries, especially those in the west where freedoms and civil rights and a notion of multicultural puarlaism allows them to over time corrupt and co-opt those societies without fear of backlash. All one has to do is look at England and France for starters and what each hs done to itself since the end ofWorld War 2 and the dissolution of their respective colonial empires that together encompassed a huge segment of Islamic majority nations. And Islam is now on the verge of completely subsuming their host countries into the Muslim "Ummah" or community.
On a positive note, it is certainly a good thing that the President along with Governor Abbott of Texas have moved to make the Muslim Brotherhood a designated terrorist organization. But again, the MB as well as Al Qaeda, ISIS and all the rest as horrid and dangerous as they are, are not the threat. They are merely the symptoms of the real threat and disease which is Islam itself. Those organizations and all the rest exist to spread Islam by force of arms and terrorism.
Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.”
Good on Rep Buddy Carter for telling it like it is. The Democrat/Left have been the enemy inside the gate for over 200 years.
And they too have embraced a foreign anti Western ideology that was imported into this nation almost a center ago, namely socialism. Its adherents and high priests who preach it have done so from the pulpit of the American classroom and lecture hall. Unless and until that is stopped, we are doomed.
Surprise surprise: The younger generations have now glommed onto Socialism, of all things, as something that will be their savior. Will Donald Trump's ascendancy lead us to a rekindling of America as founded, or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell, because if the trends are correct will the rise of Mamdani and his ilk be a one-off or as I fear our future.
Having sown mutiny in the ranks, it is ominous that we hear talk like this, since electoral politics being what it is and the Democrat proclivity to steal them on top of the vicissitudes of the electorate to change for the hell of it, this is kind of ominous when, and not if, there is a Democrat or Democrat Socialist SOCIALITE who takes the White House
The Purpose of the ‘Illegal Orders’ for Military Narrative is Beginning to Take Shape —
“The View” co-host Joy Behar invoked the Nazi Nuremberg trials on Tuesday in her warning to service members who may be following “illegal orders” from the Trump administration.
While discussing the Pentagon’s investigation into the members of Congress featured in the video, Behar recommended the audience watch a recently released film called “Nuremberg,” a movie based on the Allied trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. . .
. . . JEn Piss-Hockey Psaki and MSNOW amplify the ‘Dems will prosecute anyone taking part in the Mark Kelly investigation’ intimidation campaign:
Psaki: “What do you think the consequences should be for people who are abiding by following these steps from the Commander In Chief?”
Kirschner: “They’re following unlawful commands from Donald Trump. And if you’re committing offenses and your defense is going to be ‘I was just following orders’ — You know, that didn’t work out so well at Nuremberg.”
When they gain power again, The Left is going to come after all of us with a vengeance. Mark my words.
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“I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said: President Trump: National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom Dies Following D.C. Attack
Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.” GOP Rep. Carter: Comments from ‘Left-Wing Politicians’ Led to DC Shooting
In a feature titled “The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists,” author Amanda Montell contends the settlers who arrived in Plymouth were “not escaping religious persecution” at all but instead “left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas,” insisting they “were no doubt eager to continue building their patriarchal theocracy in the hope that Jesus would soon return.” Far‑Left Nation Mag Trashes Thanksgiving: Says Pilgrims Were ‘Doomsday Cultists’ — ‘Time to Reckon America’s Radical Origins’
The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported. Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago. (Brandon Johnson's gonna need a lot of bitches on the street and a lot of dealers in Cabrini Green to make that hustle work! Meh, Big Daddy Pritzker will just shake down whitey everywhere else!- jjs) Cook County in Illinois Makes Guaranteed Basic Income Program Permanent
California is known for pushing hundreds of bills through its Legislature each year, but many residents don’t realize what Democrat leaders have approved until the laws take effect. Top Five Craziest Laws Hitting California In 2026
In its one-page order in Blanche v. Perlmutter, the high court deferred consideration of a request from the Trump administration to temporarily stay (“pause”) a September injunction issued by a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. That directive sought to block the administration from firing Shira Perlmutter, who led the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress until her termination in May. SCOTUS Punts On Trump’s Firing Of Library Of Congress Official (For Now)
Viewers must have watched in a transfixed revulsion. Here were what appeared to be two melting candlesticks and a stud version of Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface openly daydreaming about a racially kinky sexual political conspiracy for their own enjoyment. Fascinating. Joy Reid Partakes In Democrat Tradition Of Openly Sharing Sick Fantasies
CNN’s possible sale to Paramount could mark the first real chance in years to replace activism with accountability and steer the network back toward honest journalism. Is CNN About to Turn Red?
There was a time when a student opinion page stood as ground zero for honest disagreements. Young adults tested ideas, challenged assumptions, and sharpened arguments under bright lights. When Campus Editors Fear the Truth More Than Debate
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
. . .Klobuchar triumphantly claimed that power bills have surged by 11% under Trump, blaming him for higher utility costs and a spike in past-due balances. It was supposed to be another zinger against Trump. But once again, reality intervened. Klobuchar Humiliated Herself and Accidentally Destroyed Biden
POLITICS
With Carlson now openly antisemitic and hostile to Christians and Republicans who support Israel, why is Turning Point USA still partnering with him? Turning Point USA Has A Tucker Carlson Problem
The October 2022 attack on the bridge came when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections and required months of repairs. The blast killed the truck driver and four other people in a car nearby. Moscow decried the attack as an act of terrorism and retaliated by bombarding Ukraine´s civilian infrastructure, targeting the country´s power grid over the winter. Russia Jails Ukrainian Partisans on Terrorism Charges Over Crimea Bridge Bombing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Both nations have robust Muslim populations today but played critical roles in the early development of the Church. Over 30 percent of Lebanon remains Christian, the majority of that population Catholic, and its constitution requires the president of the country to be a Maronite Christian. Turkey – after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the imposition of secularism under founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the return of Islamism under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – is a less welcoming country to Christians, though Erdogan is expected to meet with the pope personally. Pope Leo XIV Sets Off to Turkey and Lebanon on First International Tour as Pontiff
Politics will not succeed in rehabilitating the narrative of man-made, CO2-based climate change to suppress, once again, both the dialogue with the AfD and the critical debate on the Green Deal. Is the German AfD Firewall Finally Cracking?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The HHS’s final review left critics empty-handed, underscoring that current medical evidence overwhelmingly backs protecting children from risky, irreversible sex-change treatments. A Day That Will Live in Infamy for Child Gender Ideology
John Stossel: A reflection on the only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Socialism
Nearly five years since America lost the great conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh, he delivered his final annual rendition of the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020, just months before his untimely passing. Many are keeping the tradition alive and ensuring the upcoming generations know what led to the first Thanksgiving and what it is truly a celebration of. Five Years Later: Rush Limbaugh’s Final Rendition of the True Story of Thanksgiving
“His recovery in the last month has been absolutely crazy. It’s amazing,” said Apuzzo’s father. “It is Thanksgiving, so I can say… thank you to this community for all the support that we have received.” Apuzzo has another six months of therapy to fully recovery, but doctors say he has a strong chance to fully heal. 15-Year-Old Athlete Walks Out of California Hospital After Paralyzing Spinal Injury
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland Institute joins CBD for a discussion of their recent polling that shows a majority of 18-39s want socialism, the Epstein files, what will Mamdani do, and more!
Podcast: Buck Throckmorton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the cultural and business shift away from the insanity of EVs and Climate Religion, his calm perspective on last week's election, Tucker is a toad, and more!
Our Favorite British Couple Exploring True America Experiences Flora-Bama And Sees A Side Of The Deep South Rarely Seen. [dri]
Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044. Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...? You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews. Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?
I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.
Greetings, Traveler. If you still have not experienced Garth Merenghi -- Author, Dream-weaver, Visionary, plus Actor -- the six episodes of his Darkplace are still available on YouTube and supposedly upscaled to HD. (Viewing it now, it doesn't appeared upscaled for shit.) I think the second episode, "Hell Hath Fury," is the best by a good margin. Try to at least watch through to that one. It's Mereghi's incisive but nuanced take on sexism.
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